Senior Finance Business Partner - Research and Innovation

About us

UCL's Finance Business Partnering team provides strategically focused support to leadership teams across UCL. The team forges strong relationships with stakeholders to enable expert advice, critical challenge and timely decision support to enable the best financial performance.

UCL is a world-leading research university. The office of Vice-Provost, Research, Innovation and Global Engagement (VP RIGE) strives to improve the ways that we facilitate and promote the pubic benefit generated by our academics and researchers, as well as our collective institutional impact on the world.

About the role

In the job of Senior Business Partner – Research and Innovation you'll be responsible for leading the business partnering relationship with senior research colleagues and other budget-holders within their portfolio, building partnerships and maintain strong relationships with senior managers and their teams.

This job will be truly cross-cutting, working with colleagues from across finance to provide insight and influence on research finance which we currently do not have. This role is critical, as it will play a key part in ensuring we deliver key pillars of our financial strategy.

For a full range of what this job entails, please see the attached job description.

About you

To do the job of Senior Finance Business Partner - Research and Innovation, you'll need to be a fully qualified accountant (CCAB) with evidence of up-to-date technical knowledge and a track record of providing financial partnership to senior leaders. You'll have experience of working within a Business Partnering role within a complex Higher Education or research institution, and an understanding of how research finance works. You'll be able to deliver financial analysis and information to non-finance staff, using the numbers to "tell a story", and also be able to influence and challenge stakeholders to a senior level.

Please review the attached JD and ensure you cover your experience of the Essential and Desirable criteria in your application.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

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